The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-20
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A NEW FIRM OF MANAGERS.
Some Interesting Gossip About Thea
tres and Theatrical People.

Some Interesting Gossip About Thea.
tres and Theatrical People.
New YORK, Nov. 19-rhe first move of
an exceedingly powerful firm of theatrical
managers was made the other day, when
Den Thompson signed a contract for We IT
with Messrs, Gilmore & Tompkina Joshua
Whitcomb will play the whole of next sea-
son under Gilmore's management. and he
will not go outside of the theatres in which
Mr.. Gilmore is interested. By Sept. l. Gil
more & Tompkins expect to have the Acad-
envy of Music in Baltimore on their list
They will then control the Boston Theatre,
the Baltimore Opera House, and in New
York, Niblo's, the Academy of Music. and
the Fifth Avenue Theatre. This gives them
five of the biggest theatres in the country
and they can take strong attraction and
Just move it around in their own chain of
theatres, SO that whatever rent they pay
will go into their own pockets. It bars out
the West and South, and looks only toward
big shows. For instance, the "Old Home
stead" production is to be something unpar-
alleled in the history of realistic drama 1t
will be put on the Academy of Music for a
run, that is, as long as it will fill the house,
and every expedient will be used to keep up
the interest. Phillipoteau, the painter of
great panoramas, is to construct piano.
TdIlld lOT Iut SbL.Ct VI buc atdtletllN Vi l1u-
sic whice will give a view of fifteen
miles over New England country land
scape. There are to be all sorts of farm
animals on the stage, waving grain, grazing
cows, etc. The realism does not stop here
for, in the succeeding scene, which repre-
sents the interior of the house of rich New
Yorker, Mr. Gilmore has arranged TO have
an exact fac-simile of the late William II.
Vanderbilt's palace on Fifth avenue. 1t is
nv, int fl,af hos haan falyaI ahnnt a,,1
raved over by the papereIS and decorators
until half the public, and particularly wom-
en-, feel the greatest interest in it. The fac
simile of the apartment ON the stage will be
in sharp contrast to the scene without. At
the same time that The Old Homestead" is
produced in such spectacular fashion, MessTs.
Gilmore and Tompkins will produce a spec
taculnr piece employing hundreds of Deo-
pie, and with all of the usual features of
such shows. They expect to make it the
most extensive thing of the kind in this
country
There was no particular reason why
School should have succeeded at Wal
lacks this week. 1t was cast bv company
which was not particularly well adapted TO
its purposes, and it was produced ic an age
that SCOTS at the sort of sentiment the
school presents. 1t is trite, old and very
far from entertaining. Miss Coghlan does
not appear in the cast, but Mrs. abby does.
She works very hard, and gives rather a
joyful and playful representation of the
rich, but generous and friendly schoolgirl
Nettie Guion plays the role of the fr'iendless
and pathetic Cinderella. There is too much
age on the stage. though. from start TO
finish. Mrs. Abby, charming, finished and
versatile comedienne though She is, has far
too mature figure for Il school girl, and all
of her light and graceful byplav is lost on
this account. Osmond Tearle is growing
fat, and is by no means the dashing and
immature juvenile actor that he was fifteen
years ago The audience was politely in
different TO the play on the first night, aud
it viii probably I've necessary 10 substitute
some other play at once. Etalka Gerster
and Helen Hastreiter occupied boxes the
first night, and the public, which has adorcd
them so faithfully on the stage, transferred
its devotional eyes to the boxes There was
sharp contrast between the distinctly
feminine beauty of Nine Gerster and the
bony, heavy and severe physique of her
fellow artiSte.
Mrs. Potter's second pl y did not
strengthen the impression that She made on
her first appearance here. II was indeed,
decidedly disappointing 1t would be very
much better tor Mrs Potter to 20 back to
the odd comedies il She finds it SO thoroughly
impossible to get anything that is half way
decent IN the shape of a play. The first